peneplane

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English

Noun

peneplane (plural peneplanes)

  1. Alternative form of peneplain
    • 1944 September and October, J. F. Husband, “The Geology and Alignment of the L.M.S.R. from London to Crewe”, in Railway Magazine, pages 263–264:
      Now leaving behind us the blue clays, we come upon the next oldest and very different system, the trias formations of red marls and sandstones, with much glacial drift on the surface of this part of the great Midland peneplane, and memories of the ancient Forest of Arden over a large area of beautiful Warwickshire.